John Searle Quotes
You need to know enough of the natural sciences so that you are not a stranger in the world.
Quotes to Explore
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.
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It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
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In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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Both sides should demand a speedy trial.
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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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I had been to see Macbeth at the theatre a night or two before and she reminded me of the faces rising out of the witches' cauldron.
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But no, I'm not political. My obligation is to pull the lever and elect somebody who's going to make life a little better for everybody, especially those who don't have as much good fortune as others.
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Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.
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You need to know enough of the natural sciences so that you are not a stranger in the world.
